Without construction. transitive. To charge (a person) with a fault, crime, or offence; to make an accusation against; to blame, censure.

To impute the guilt or fault to, blame (a person).

transitive. To find fault with; to censure (an action, a person for his action): the opposite of to praise.

transitive. To blaspheme against; to blame.

transitive. To condemn, blame, find fault with.

transitive. To blame. Cf. freeless, adj.

transitive. To find ‘lacks’ or faults in; to find fault with, abuse, blame, reproach, vituperate. Also absol. Obsolete (Scottish and northern dialect)

To assail the actions, question the statements, etc. of (a person); to find fault with, accuse. Now rare.

transitive. To reckon to the credit or debit of a person. chiefly, in a bad sense: To lay to the charge of, impute as a fault to, charge upon.

transitive. To declare (a person) to have failed in the performance of a duty or obligation. Now Law (chiefly U.S.): to declare (a party in a court…

transitive. To criticize, blame; to rebuke.

transitive. To blame, find fault with.

Const. †for, of (now rare), with (now usual); †also infinitive and object clause (obsolete).

transitive. To point a finger at (a person) in order to mock, accuse, or otherwise draw attention to him or her; (hence) to accuse, to blame.

To blame.

To take to task, to blame.

transitive. To blame (something) on someone; to attribute (an unwanted outcome or event) to a particular cause. With on, upon.

To give the thanks or credit for something to; to consider or hold responsible; esp. in ironical use, = to blame.

transitive. To grumble at; to blame, take to task. Obsolete.

to take to task: †(a) to undertake as one's task or special piece of work; †(b) to challenge (a person) to a task; †(c) to take (a person or thing)…

transitive. To reproach or upbraid (a person); to tease, to taunt. Cf. twit, v. 1a.